Klute
Klute is a 1971 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula and starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Roy Scheider and Rita Gam. Its plot follows a high-priced New York City call girl who assists a detective from Pennsylvania in solving the missing person case of a john who may be stalking her. It is the first installment of what has informally come to be known as Pakula's "paranoia trilogy", followed by The Parallax View (1974) and All the President's Men (1976), all films dealing with themes of paranoia, conspiracies and surveillance.
Plot
After Pennsylvania chemical company executive Tom Gruneman disappears, the police find an obscene letter in Gruneman's office addressed to a New York City call girl named Bree Daniels, who had received several such letters. After six months of fruitless police work, Peter Cable, a fellow executive at Gruneman's company, hires family friend and detective John Klute to investigate Gruneman's disappearance.
Awards
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| author | Andy Lewis |
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| award | Academy Award for Best Actress |
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Alan J. Pakula |
| editor | Carl Lerner |
| events | prostitution |
| genre | crime drama thriller |
| keywords | act address book apparent suicide black book bread crumbs build call girl client domestic life drug addict family friend id john kill learn model murder paranoia paranoid pimp report river snuff film telephone call turn voice-over voiceover |
| musicBy | Michael Small |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| producer | Alan J. Pakula |
| productionCompany | Gus Productions |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | missing people neo-noir psychological thriller security and surveillance serial killer snuff |